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The Great Ziggurat of Ur was completed in the 21st century B.C. and is located near the present-day city of Al-Nasiriyah on the Euphrates River, about 370 km (225 mi) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. It was part of a temple complex that served as an administrative center for the city, and it was also a shrine of the moon god Nanna, the patron deity of the city.
View looking up the main stairway of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defense/ Spc. Samantha Ciaramitaro.
Aerial view of the ruins of the ancient city of Hatra, Iraq, located approximately 290 km (180 mi) northwest of Baghdad. Hatra was a strongly fortified caravan city and capital of the small Kingdom of Hatra in the second century A.D., located between the Parthian and Roman Empires. Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defense / Sgt. 1st Class Wendy Butts.
The remains of several temples and the ancient walls that surrounded them can be seen from the top of the highest temple in the center of the ancient city of Hatra, Iraq. Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defense.
The Parthian Temple of Mrn is one of thirteen temples at the Hatra complex in Iraq. Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defense/ Staff Sgt. JoAnn Makinano.
Halamata Cave is an archaeological site near Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It contains Assyrian relief carvings (known as the Maltai reliefs) that date back to the reign of Assyrian King Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and depict the ruler worshipping divinities.
Amadiya or Amedi is a town located on a mesa in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. The Bahdinan Gate is the entrance to the citadel of Al Amadiya, which was built for the defense of Amadiya and as part of a trading route between Amadiya, Mosul, Sinjar, and Baghdad. The gate is 4 m (13 ft) wide with a large winding stone staircase leading to it and has carvings of unknown people, the sun, and a cord with multiple loops.
Sunset in Sulaymaniyah, a city in the eastern part of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. A Kurdish prince founded the modern city in 1784 and named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha.
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